Dreams, miracles and jazz: new adventures in African fiction

Mialy Ravelomanana Andriamananjara started writing when she was eight, mostly because she was a lonely child, despite having three older brothers. She spent a lot of time daydreaming and making up stories, which she would then enact in a game called kindriandri

Mialy Ravelomanana Andriamananjara started writing when she was eight, mostly because she was a lonely child, despite having three older brothers. She spent a lot of time daydreaming and making up stories, which she would then enact in a game called kindriandriana, which little Malagasy girls know well. In this game, girls gather stones and use them much as a western girl would play with dolls. Later, she started playing with words, because she loved books and she knew she liked to tell stories. Now that circumstances and family have taken her away from her beloved homeland, she writes when she is homesick and because her stories keep her closer to her past and her culture. the first story that she wrote, The Shred, was published in SABLE Litmag in 2005.